Invitation to Cover: A City in
Crisis? The Rise of Violence in Philadelphia

WHAT:

“A City in Crisis? The Rise of Violence in Philadelphia”
- an interdisciplinary forum on mental health and society hosted by
the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

“The goal of this forum is to understand the phenomenon of
urban violence from a sociological and psychological perspective,
looking at causes and effects,” said Richard F. Summers,
MD, Associate Director of Education for Residency Training
and Clinical Associate Professor in Penn’s Department of Psychiatry.
“There will be a particular focus on the role of trauma as
a factor in the etiology of violence.”

WHO:

A distinguished panel of experts in the areas of sociology, psychiatry,
law, and criminology from Penn, the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia,
and the City of Philadelphia.

Elijah Anderson, The Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor
of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, University
of Pennsylvania

Richard James Gelles, Dean of the School of Social Policy &
Practice; the Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare
and Family Violence; Director for the Center for Research on Youth
& Social Policy and Co-Director of the Field Center for Children’s
Policy Practice & Research, University of Pennsylvania

Wendell E. Pritchett, Associate Dean of the Law School and Associate
Professor of Law concentrating on Legal History, Environmental
Law, and Property Law, University of Pennsylvania

Lawrence W. Sherman, Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human
Relations in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Jerry
Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania

PENN Medicine is a $2.9 billion enterprise
dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research,
and high-quality patient care. PENN Medicine consists of the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (founded in 1765 as the nation's first
medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Penn's School of Medicine is ranked #2 in the nation for receipt
of NIH research funds; and ranked #3 in the nation in U.S.News & World
Report's most recent ranking of top research-oriented medical schools.
Supporting 1,400 fulltime faculty and 700 students, the School of Medicine
is recognized worldwide for its superior education and training of the
next generation of physician-scientists and leaders of academic medicine.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System includes three hospitals,
all of which have received numerous national patient-care honors [Hospital
of theUniversity of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's
first hospital; and Penn Presbyterian Medical Suite]; a faculty practice
plan; a primary-care provider network; two multispecialty satellite facilities;
and home care and hospice.